| LC control no. | nr 90019669 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Council of Four Lands |
| Variant(s) | Ṿaʻad arbaʻ aratsot ועד ארבע ארצות Sejm Czterech Ziem Va'ad Arba' aratzot Council of Three Lands Council of Five Lands |
| Beginning date | 1580 |
| Ending date | 1764 |
| Associated place | Jarosław (Poland) Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Volhynia (Ukraine) |
| Located | Lublin (Poland) |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Its Pinḳas Ṿaʻad arbaʻ aratsot, 1989 or 1990: added t.p. (Council of Four Lands) p. 15 (central Jewish institution representing the Jewish communities in Latvia-Poland from the 16th-18th cent.; dissolved in 1764) Encyc. Judaica, c1971 (Council of Four Lands; Jewish institution of self-government representing the Jewish communities in Poland and Latvia) ha-Entiḳlopedyah ha-ʻIvrit, 1985: v. 16, p. 453 (Ṿaʻad arbaʻ aratsot; mosad ha-hanhagah shel ha-gelilot ṿeha-ḳehilot be-artsot "ha-keter" ha-Polani) Sejm Czterech Ziem, 2011. Wikipedia, via WWW, 25 Aug. 2016 (Council of Four Lands, Va'ad Arba' aratzot, in Lublin, Poland; central body of Jewish authority in Poland from 1580 to 1764; four lands were Greater Poland, Little Poland, Ruthenia, and Volhynia; terms Council of Three Lands and Council of Five Lands have also been used for the same body; meetings occured more frequently at Yaroslav than at Lublin; operations included legislative, administrative, judicial, spiritual, and cultural functions) |
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